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Samereh Alinejad, blindfolded and ready to be hanged, was slapped by the mother of the man he was convicted of murdering then pardoned by the victim's family. Iran executes hundreds of prisoners annually through an opaque legal system that human rights groups say also puts scores of political prisoners behind bars. (Associated Press)

Iran record of human rights appalls international community

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Left to right: James Woolsey, Phillip crowley, Wesley Martin, George casey, James conway, Kenneth blackwell, Michael Mukasey, John bolton, Louis Freeh, Tom ridge, Thomas cantwell, howard dean, rudy Giuliani, hugh shelton, elaine chao, Marc Ginsberg, ed rendell, chuck Wald, Francis Townsend, Lincoln bloomfield Jr., bill richardson, raymond Tanter, robert Torricelli, and Linda chavez. credit: Moussa Mohebbi

Regime change in Iran: Major U.S. figures join call for regime change in Tehran

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Maryam Rajavi, the leader of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, says Western powers stand "against the Iranian people's will." (Associated Press) **FILE**

Khamenei regime in Iran legitimized by Obama nuclear talks, dissidents say

By Guy Taylor and Karine Barzegar - The Washington Times

Palestinians chant slogans during a protest organized by the Palestinian Youth Organization, calling for an end to political division, reopening of the Rafah crossing border and the reconstruction of destroyed houses that were damaged in last summer's Israel-Hamas war, in Gaza City , in the northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, April 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

FRANK GAFFNEY: Iran reconnects with Hamas

By Sean MacCormac

Jason Rezaian, an Iranian-American correspondent for The Washington Post, has been detained and unspecified charges have been leveled against him by Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

John Kerry condemns Iran detention of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Iranian Aggression in Mideast Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

HERBERT LONDON: Iran deal risks Shiite crescent, war with Sunnis in Middle East

By Herbert London

Exiled Iranians gathered in Villepinte, France, to listen to Maryam Rajavi, the leader of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. (Associated Press)

Rally of strange bedfellows : To change Iran, U.S. group backs former ‘terrorists’

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2008 file photo, Matt Stolper, director of the Persepolis Fortification Archive at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, examines a tablet that is part of a collection that provide a top-to-bottom look at life in the Persian empire 2,500 years ago. On Friday, March 28, 2014, a federal judge in Chicago ruled that survivors of a 1997 terrorist attack blamed partly on Iran can't seize museum pieces in U.S. collections to help pay a $412 million judgment against Iran. The ruling stems from a long-running legal battle that museum officials elsewhere watching closely. They feared their own collections could be put at risk if the judge had allowed collections of Persian antiquities at Chicago's Field Museum and the University of Chicago to be seized. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

Museum items can’t be seized to pay Iran judgment

By MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press

Iran bought luxury cars with medical funds

By Adam Kredo - Washington Free Beacon - The Washington Times

This undated handout photo provided by the family of Robert Levinson after they received it in April 2011, shows retired-FBI agent Robert Levinson. In March 2007, Levinson flew to Kish Island, an Iranian resort awash with tourists, smuggler and organized crime figures. Days later after a meeting with an admitted killer, he vanished. For years the U.S. has publicly described him as a private citizen who was traveling on private business. However, an Associated Press investigation reveals that Levinson was working for the CIA. (AP Photo/Levinson Family)

American missing in Iran was CIA operative who went rogue

By Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo - Associated Press

**FILE** In this photo released Nov. 24, 2013, by the Iranian Students News Agency, Iranians wave their national flag as they hold a poster of President Hassan Rouhani, while welcoming Iranian nuclear negotiators upon their arrival from Geneva at the Mehrabad airport in Tehran. The sanctions relief offered to Iran by the U.S. and five world powers is meager in the context of the economy of a nation of nearly 80 million people, but by boosting morale in the business community it has already begun to get the gears of commerce turning again in Iran. (Associated Press/ISNA, Hemmat Khahi)

State mulling whether to invite Iran to upcoming Syria talks

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In front of a portrait of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, presidential candidate Hasan Rowhani, a former top nuclear negotiator, center, gestures to his supporters at a rally in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 1, 2013.

White House congratulates Iranians on new president

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

**FILE** An Iranian goldsmith shows Iran's gold coins at a gold market in the main old Bazaar of Tehran on Jan. 26, 2012. (Associated Press)

Obama administration looks to cut Iran’s access to gold

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Iranian oil technician Majid Afshari makes his way to the oil separator facilities in Iran's Azadegan oil field southwest of Tehran on April 15, 2008. (Associated Press)

Greek shipping magnate named in scheme to evade sanctions on Iranian oil

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Illustration: Iranian hostages by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

WEISS: U.S. pastor faces trial in Iran for Christian faith

By Deborah Weiss

Manssor Arbabsiar, 56, seen here in a booking photo, has admitted his role in a $1.5 million plot to kill Adel Al-Jubeir, Saudi ambassador to the U.S., at a Washington restaurant by setting off explosives, according to U.S. officials. (Associated Press/U.S. Marshals Service)

Man guilty in plot to kill Saudi ambassador

By Jerry Seper - The Washington Times

President Obama speaks at Prince George's Community College in Largo, Md., on Thursday, March 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama slams Iran’s use of ‘electronic curtain’ for repression

By Ben Birnbaum - The Washington Times

Illustration by M. Ryder

ELAND: Iran sanctions won’t work

By Ivan Eland - The Washington Times

Illustration: Iran

KAHLILI: Putting an end to Iran Air terror flights

By Reza Kahlili - The Washington Times